ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,010, issued on July 14, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Aluminum member, aluminum-resin composite, and method for producing the aluminum-resin composite" was invented by Yuki Sato (Toyota, Japan), Yozo Uchida (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ehara (Toyota, Japan), Syoichi Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan), Masataka Asai (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Asano (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Uchimura (Miyoshi, Japan), Yasuaki Nagano (Kosai, Japan) and Shigeru Matsumoto (Toyohashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aluminum member, a member ...